30th June
TOKYO
I arrived in Tokyo in the evening, in time to see all the lights! very impressive. Walked around Ginza, which was one of the first areas of Tokyo to modernise back in the 1870s. It was home of Tokyo's first department stores, and is now a very popular, and classy shopping area. I noticed as i was walking some interesting street furniture and landscape.
Top, an example of some of the unusual architecture around Ginza; very tall as most buildings seem to be in japan -the lack of building space means instead of building outwards, they build upwards. I noticed some very economical uses of space; especcially with car and bike parking in big cities in Japan. And bottom some swanky street lights outside the Apple shop in Ginza, Love the use of a fairly standard shape for a street light, contradicted by the fact that the whole thing lights up. nice.
